Dear Dirk, Miguel, Tim,
Dirk Kostrewa wrote:
another point for your wish list: usually, I save coordinates quite
frequently during a model building session, giving always the same name
for that session like "myproject-coot6.pdb". Coot always asks me to
select a file name and appends "-coot-0" before the ".pdb", which I find
quite tedious.
There are 3 potentially tedious things going on here:
(1) coot not overwriting the input file
(2) coot choosing a new file-name for saving that you don't like
(3) coot giving you a dialog
AFAICS, Coot will never overwrite the input file (without specific user
intervention to do so) - not while I have a say about it, that is.
I am prepared to compromise about (2), giving you a temporary file name
that gets overwritten (which is of course, not the input file),
"xxx-coot-tmp-0.pdb", perhaps.
As to (3), that is already done away with, using quick-save-as
(Ctrl-S). This is, I think the 3rd case of implementing a feature that
I doubted and resisted in the face of community pressure, but then
having implemented, went on to enjoy myself - I use it many times a day.
And note that (unless you tell it otherwise) coot does a back-up of the
model before every modification - that is what fills the coot-backup
directory.
My suggestion is: offer both a "Save Coordinates", with
only an initial query for the output file name, and a "Save Coordinates
as ..." option. That would offer the user to either quickly overwrite
the initial output file or save the coordinates to a new output file name.
I don't entirely agree with that.
Or perhaps I do as long as the initial output file name is not the same
as the input file name.
Paul.
